Christopher Georgesco​

Christopher Georgesco was encouraged to pursue his own artistic talents by his father, Haralamb Georgescu, known for midcentury architecture in LA.

His father designed buildings for Romania's King Michael, fled from Ceausescu in 1947 as a stowaway on a ship, and later became known for his Bauhaus-style modern buildings. "My father always encouraged me to do my own thing," says Christopher. "He gave me a VW van, a credit card, a lumber yard, and let me have my freedom."

In 1972 at the age of 22, Georgesco had his first show out of his warehouse gallery to critical acclaim, followed by a group show at the Newspace Gallery where he has continued to show for the past four decades. His sculptures sold, and he was later penned by the Los Angeles Times critic as, "one of the most interesting sculptors in LA."

Georgesco was featured in a book entitled, LA Rising: SoCal Artists Before 1980, in which the critic said, "All his sculptures are all deceptively simple, monolithic shafts...prolonged looking reveals continually changing forms."

His career still shines bright. His impeccable sculptures and paintings can be found in the public collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, the La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, the Palm Springs Art Museum plus universities and corporations around the world. Locally, his works are prized by art collectors in some of the finest modern homes from La Quinta to Palm Springs and all around Southern California.